Excursions

Activities in Uummannaq

With a pioneering spirit Uummannaq can offer various trips with a boat, helicopter or if you want to challenge your adventure side, you can hike inland toward the glacier or you can climb the highest peak. And if you want to see glaciers….Uummannaq is one of the most glacier-rich area in the world. Uummannaq has not just one but more than 10 glaciers in Uummannaq area! Including one of the worlds fastest moving glacier known as Store Glacier or Great Qarajaq, it moves 5,7 km just for a year.

These are just for your inspiration. If you thinking you like to see more or other activities like, sightseeing, hiking, heliskiing, climbing, kayaking, river fishing, deep seafishing please don´t hesitate to contact us we can arrange your trip just the way you wanted.

For your information we can also arrange winter activities. We have a good contact with the local fishermen. So if you want to try longline fishing with the classic dogsledding, give us a call. You can also visit the nearest settlement by snowmobile, dogsledding or by a taxi.

Alternative transport to Qaarsut

If you rather sail to Qaarsut it can be arrange. Here you can enjoy the scenery of the fjord while you drinking your coffee. Qaarsut situated approx. 22 km west of Uummannaq which is the regional airport in Uummannaq area.

Settlement tour to Saattut

Here you can witness now at days hunting and fishing community everyday life. It hasn’t change very much from early days hunting and fishing culture. Saattut situated approx. 23 km east of Uummannaq with 229 inhabetants. It got it’s own school, shop, church, small fishing fabric, kindergarten.

Settlement tour to Ikerasak

Small isolated settlements are very special in Greenland. Ikerasak situated approx. 36 km south of Uummannaq with 213 inhabetants. They got internet, flat screen TV’s but settlement has the same early days hunting and fishing culture.

Sightseeing in Uummannaq

We will visit the museum and the granite church, walk around Uummannaq’s hilly streets and paths between the colourful houses. We will walking by preserved earthen huts and old houses where you will learn about how Inuit lived at that time. We will walk to the highest point in the town with a view out towards Uummannaq Fjord and the peaks of the Nuussuaq peninsula in the background.

Hike to Santa Claus summer residence

Uummannaq 360º

Here you have a opportunity to sail around the famous Uummannaq mountain. Uummannaq means “heart – like” with 1175 meters heart shaped mountain that lies just behind the town. The story says when you have visit Uummannaq a piece of your heart remains on the island, calling you back for the rest of your days. You can take a photo by boat of the heard shaped mountain and if we are lucky we can see some whales or other sea mammals like seals.

Visiting Qilakitsoq

The place we have to visit is an old Inuit settlement across the fjord on the Nuussuaq peninsula. In 1972 there have been found will preserved mummies, which is dated to 500 years. The famous 8 mummies has provided a great deal of information on how the Inuit lived and what their clothing looked like. It is still possible to see some of the old graves, but please remember that you are visiting an old graveyard and that is strictly prohibited to remove any relict from the area. The original mummies can be seen in the National Museum of Greenland in Nuuk and Uummannaq museum has a very good exhibition of the mummies, including copies of their clothing.

Sail to The desert

We will sail into one of many Uummannaq Fjords among many beautiful icebergs. On the way there will be a good chance to see whales or other sea mammals. The desert is an unique mineral landscape, with high in sulphur and iron content have reacted to produce an deposit yellow landscape. In the desert you can find very rare stones where it dated to 1.5 mill. years old.

Sunset trip in Uummannaq

Uummannaq is known for having 2000 hours of sunshine per year! It means the sun never comes down during the summer. We will sail out to Uummannaq Fjord and enjoying colourful midnight sun. And the sun gives icebergs a unique play of colours that visitors to Greenland experience again and again. There will be also a very good chance to see whales and other sea mammals and sea birds.

Climate expedition in Uummannaq

We will start sailing from Uummannaq to Itilliarsuup Kangerlua. And on the way we will go on land at Saattut, where we ask one of the local fisherman how the weather and conditions was for 10 years ago. After half an hour in Saattut we will sail to our final destination. Here you can see where the glacier was for couple of years ago, so there will be a time to see how much ice it has melted.

Whale Safari

Sailing in Uummannaq Fjords is a very good chance to see Fin whales, Humback whales, Minke whales, Pilot whales and other sea mammals. It is a great experience to op close these whales. Wether this is your first or tenth whale safari tour, seeing such a magnificent creature right before your eyes can be overwhelming.

Cruise in Uummannaq

We will start sailing into the Uummannaq Fjord and going on land for a while at The desert. Here you can find 1.5 mill. years old stones and here it is like no one else like in Greenland. Then we will sail to the high vertical mountain Qaqullussuit where hundreds of birds breeding. After we have been in Qaqullussuit we will sail to Uummannaq and the boat will sail north of the heard shaped mountain.

Sailing to Qarajaq (Store Glacier)

In 1860’s came a man to Qarajaq from the nearest settlement and he came for Qarajaq to stay. He became a solid nucleus in the population where they stayed more than hundred years. The man was a great hunter named Tivagdlarge(Tivallaqqi) christen name Bernhard Andreassen. After couple hour is Qarassap Imaa we will sail to a settlement Ikerasak. Here you will see fishermen and hunters everyday life, but also how the locals spent the summer. When we sailing home there will be a good chance to see some whales.

8 hours in Uummannaq Fjord

We will sail to the Qilakitsoq here there will be a history lesson about the findings of mumies and how Inuit lifed a that time. Then we will sail to The desert here is not like anywhere else in Greenland it is like you are just landed on the moon and you can find 1.5 mill. years old stones. After we have been in The desert we will sail to the 1000 meters high vertical mountain. Before we sailing home to Uummannaq we will visit the settlement Saattut where you can wetness fishing and hunting community everyday life.

Captains favorite

This is very unforgettable experience in a life time! And this kind of a tour is only can happen in Uummannaq. Here you have a opportunity to see whale and a muskox in one tour. We will start sailing north toward Umiivik approx. 126 km’s from Uummannaq and on the way you have a big chance to see Fin whales, Minke whales, Humback whales and other sea mammals. After we have sailed approx. 3 hours we will arrive to Umiivik and if we are lucky we can already see muskox before we are at the coast of Umiivik. After couple hours in Umiivik we will sailing back to Uummannaq.

Charter Uummannaq Seasafaris boat

Are you looking for a safe boat it can transport your crew and equipment? Or maybe you just need a safe boat to transport you from A to B, please be freely to contact us and we will looking at your plans with you. You can book our boat for 10 hours with starting point in Uummannaq and ends in Uummannaq. If you have another job with deferent duration or a location in other town, please be freely to contact us or send an email. Homeport for our boat is Uummannaq. But it dosen’t mean that we can’t sail to another town. Our boat is approved to sail 2000 km in Greenlandic west coast.